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White Pine Co. Wilderness Campaign Begins FRIENDS OF NEVADA WILDERNESS Keeping Nevvvada Wild Since 1984 SPRING 2005 After a sixteen-year wait White Pine Co. wilderness campaign begins By Brian Beffort In 1989, the Nevada Wilderness Protection Act designated 14 Forest Service wilderness areas across the state, including Mt. Moriah and Currant Mountain in White Pine County. However, the bill did not designate certain other wild gems – namely the Schell Creek Range and Highland Ridge in the southern Snake Range. Friends of Nevada Wilderness has been waiting for Congress to return to the region and give these beautiful mountain ranges the protection they deserve. Sixteen years later, the opportunity is here. Celebrate On February 7, 2005, the White Pine County Commission sent a letter to Nevada’s Congressional Earth Day delegation, expressing their interest and desire for a White Pine County public lands bill. In their letter, with Friends of the commission specifically mentions wilderness as Nevada one of the opportunities they wish to address with legislation. Photo by Scott Smith Wilderness continued on page 5 Bristlecone pine in Mt. Grafton WSA in Union Pacific Dynamites Inside Reno Wilderness Page and Severe floods in January washed away roads, bridges and railroad tracks and bridges in Lincoln Front Lines 2 Las Vegas. County near several new Wilderness areas. While Earth Day events schedule 2 repairing the railroad, Union Pacific ignored the Details on Clover Mountain Wilderness boundary and blasted Hike the South Egan WSA 3 page 2. away 5 acres of beautiful cliff in the Wilderness to Wildlands deserve a fresh look 4 get rock. Had they bothered to contact the BLM, a rock source outside the Wilderness could have been Keeping Mormon Mtns wild 6 found easily. Ely BLM personnel discovered the BLM planning updates 6 damage on March 14 and ordered the Railroad’s contractor, Las Vegas Paving Corp., to stop work Threats to White Pine County 7 immediately. Stewardship trips schedule back page continued on page 3 1 From the front lines White Pine and Lyon County bills expected, Board of Directors stewardship opportunities & Earth Day As Spring comes to Nevada, Northern Nevada Members scoping meetings for the Sempra Coal wilderness is blooming all over. White Henry Egghart Plant, water pipelines in eastern Nevada, Pine and Lyon counties show the Ron Hunter Sloan Canyon NCA and others. See page 6 potential for public lands bills this year for a partial schedule. Corey Lewis (more on Lyon next issue). I chose to Roger Scholl feature some of the wonderful wild Earth Day events will be held all over Marge Sill places in White Pine County for this Nevada. Please visit us at one of the Earth Rural Nevada Members Earth Day Newsletter. Please take the Day events listed below, and please Karen Boeger time to write your Congressional commit to doing something positive for Peter Bradley delegation about protecting our wild places. This some of these special places is a great season to Southern Nevada Members as wilderness. write letters, visit Theo Byrns areas on the ground I hope you are as outraged Geoff Frasz and work for a as I am with the blatant Hermi Hiatt healthy environment. John Hiatt destruction in our new Clover Macaire Moran Mountain Wilderness by the I bid a fond Bart Patterson Union Pacific Railroad farewell to Pete Company. Friends of Nevada Dronkers who Wilderness will make brought energy and Staff restoration of this wilderness Shaaron Netherton enthusiasm to his a high priority. Northern Nevada Office work with Friends. He will be missed Shaaron Netherton Several wilderness stewardship trips here. I wish him well in his expeditions Brian Beffort are scheduled this spring and early around the world. Richard Knox summer, and I hope to see some of you PO Box 9754 out there giving back to the land. For Be Wild, Reno, NV 89507 those of you who don’t want to get (775) 324-7667 down and dirty doing restoration, we will need wilderness supporters to attend Shaaron Netherton Eastern Nevada Office several meetings. There will be EIS Executive Director Pam White PO Box 150374 Ely, NV 89315 (775)289-8898 Earth Day 2005 Events Schedule Earth Day, Idlewild Park — Reno. Sunday, April 24 — 10 AM to 5 PM Southern Nevada Office Come out to Idlewild Park for a great day celebrating Mother Earth and stop by to talk Susan Potts wilderness with us in the big tent. 1700 E. Desert Inn #406 Las Vegas, NV 89109 UNLV Earth Day Friday, April 22 — Times arranged too late for this newsletter. (702) 650-6542 Summerlin Earthfaire – Summerlin Centre Community Park [email protected] Saturday, April 23 — 10 AM to 3 PM. www.nevadawilderness.org Earth Day Weekend — Spring Mountain Ranch State Park [email protected] Sunday, April 24 — 8 AM to dusk. Volunteers needed for all Earth Day events — Please call Friends’ Las Vegas or Newsletter published quarterly Reno office to sign up. It’s fun, and you get to meet a lot of folk who want to learn more about saving Nevada’s wild places. 2 Hike the South Egan Range WSA By Peter Druschke With its sheer limestone cliffs towering over the town of Lund and the stately pine forests in the higher elevations, the South Egan Range is an obvious contender for wilderness designation. You can help by visiting the area, getting to know it, then sharing your love of the area with senators and the public as the White Pine County public lands bill moves forward in 2005. This hike up Ninemile Canyon will give you a sampling of what the South Egan Range has to offer: soaring limestone cliffs riddled with caves, springs with thickets of chokecherry and cottonwood, and lots of wildlife. Getting to the South Egan Range WSA From Las Vegas take I-15 east to 93 north. A few miles north of Ash Springs, turn left onto highway 318 toward Lund. From Ely drive south on Hwy 6, then south on 318 to Lund. Access to the WSA is via an unsigned two-track on the east side of the high- way. It begins at a gate and corral about 23 miles north Kirch Wildlife Management Area near Sunnyside, or 9 miles south of Lund. Please close the gate! A tank and windmill (Sheep Pass well) are visible in the distance. Take the two-track to the rangefront. A rough portion of the track climbs the slope (4WD recommended). Park at the first The South Egan WSA is richly endowed with junction to the right. Hike the trail (pack-trail on the USGS map) stunning scenery, impressive cliffs, lush riparian south up Ninemile Canyon. You will be treated to views of lower vegetation, diverse wildlife and opportunities for Ninemile Canyon, lush with cottonwood and wild rose, thanks to solitude. Photo by Peter Druschke. perennial water. Where the trail crosses the wash, the adventur- ous can continue hiking up the canyon, take the first large right- fork and climb to the ridge. Bushwhacking is involved, but the pay-off is the open, windswept crest of the South Egan Range, Action you can take with peaks over 9,000 feet cloaked with fir and limber pine. From Please invest a few moments to contact our Ninemile Mt. views stretch across a huge swath of east-central Congressional delegation and voice your support for Nevada. Precipitous cliffs and canyons are visible to the south. protecting the South Egan Range as wilderness. Agency: BLM Ely at (775) 289-1800; www.nv.blm.gov/ely Facilities: None on hike; nearest in Lund, 9 miles north. Delegation addresses and phone numbers are shown on Maps: DeLorme’s Gazetteer, page 56, grid B4; USGS Sheep page 5. Pass Canyon 7.5” quad. Union Pacific Dynamites wilderness continued from page 1 You can help Union Pacific has a history of disregarding wilderness Please write Union Pacific and tell them to restore the protection, and this latest violation is outrageous. Union damage they did to the Clover Mountains Wilderness. Pacific needs to be held accountable for their illegal actions. Richard Davidson, CEO Friends of Nevada Wilderness is working with the BLM to see Union Pacific Railroad Company that Union Pacific rehabilitates the damage done to the Clover 1400 Douglas Street Mountain Wilderness. Omaha, NE 68179 (402) 271-3298 - fax 3 BLM’s original process was rushed Nevvvada’s wildlands deservvve a fresh look By Shaaron Netherton and Brian Beffort In the late 1970s, the Bureau of Land management was a foreign concept for many Management inventoried its lands in Nevada to in the BLM. see which qualified as wilderness, then The BLM’s wilderness inventories and recommended to Congress those the agency recommendations reflect the attitudes and felt were most suitable for wilderness knowledge of the times, but Nevada has designation. changed a lot since then. For “There are some Although the BLM did a fair nearly 20 years, Nevada has who can live without job at the time, 25 years of been the fastest-growing state wild things and hindsight show that the BLM’s Wilderness in the Union, and side effects some who cannot. original inventories missed management was have included increasing Like winds and numerous wildland gems, and pressures on Nevada’s lands. sunsets, wild things their recommendations do not a foreign concept Americans have also come to were taken for meet the demands and values of for many in the appreciate the recreational and st granted until the 21 Century. Since that time, BLM. biological values of our unique progress began to Friends of Nevada Wilderness desert ecosystems. and the wider Nevada Wilderness do away with them.
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